Not much for a while, then when I was a teenager I got into Flash / ActionScript, this was around the 2advanced era, if that means anything to you. I did a little bit of that & HTML, CSS and PHP throughout high school, then landed a job in e-mail marketing a few years after I dropped out of school, slicing templates for customers. Been climbing my way up since.

I'm guessing an AUTOEXEC.BAT file to configure DOS settings for different games.

haha close! i saw my mom get frustrated not remembering where her programs were located, so I wrote a little numerical menu for her with her programs listed in order of use. each number was secretly another .bat script that would then go to the right directory and run, for example, WordPerfect for her.

> What did you write when you were 10?

Me, personally, a text adventure game filled with bugs that I did not know how to fix. (I realise only decades later that the index into array I was using to store the location references was probably incorrectly calculated when I moved sometimes.)

I learned a lot of programming from books like these (official links, not pirated):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTdGY0VEQzSGZnelU...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTb2VxczM3WGNBLUE...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTRUl3SFRONGN0MFk...

There were more (one had a game called "Rats" and from the description I thought it would be a 3D game, but alas I never got it entered properly and even if I did, I realise now that it probably wasn't 3d rendered).